Adjustment Quotes

• There's no performance where I never have to think about setting up a phrase or making a technical adjustment while I'm performing.

  

  Renee Fleming
  • Performing
  • Phrases
  • Settings

• Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.

  

  R. D. Laing
  • World
  • Insanity
  • Adjustment

• We take almost all the decisive steps in our lives as a result of slight inner adjustments of which we are barely conscious.

  

  W. G. Sebald
  • Lives
  • Result
  • Conscious

• The saving of our world from pending doom will come, not through the complacent adjustment of the conforming majority, but through the creative maladjustment of a nonconforming minority.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Creative
  • Minority
  • Adjustment

• I'm getting on top of the plate like I did last year. I'm just trying to compensate and make adjustments. Running, I'm pretty much about half speed. That's about all I got.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • Trying
  • Pretty
  • Running

• The smallest change in perspective can transform a life. What tiny attitude adjustment might turn your world around?

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • World
  • Change

• The merciful adjustment which nature makes when what cannot be cured must be endured.

  

  Margaret Mitchell
  • Nature
  • Cured
  • Adjustment

• Sometimes, for young players, the hardest adjustment they have to make is just being accountable for everything they do. They want to make the big play, they want to just get to the ending point rather than working themselves through it. You'll see that a little bit with our new offensive guys. They don't know how hard it is to be a good football player. People just think it happens. It's hard...and it's a process.

  

  Bret Bielema
  • Process
  • Players
  • Accountable

• (Highland) made the adjustment - they just didn't hit them.

  

  Jay Harrington
  • Adjustment
  • Highland

• Mans most disagreeable habits and idiosyncrasies, his deceit, his cowardice, his lack of reverence, are engendered by his incomplete adjustment to a complicated civilisation. It is the result of the conflict between our instincts and our culture.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Conflict
  • Habits
  • Reverence

• I was that kid that did dance, singing, pageants. I did everything pretty much across the board, so it was kind of an adjustment solely doing music.

  

  Normani Kordei Hamilton Fifth Harmony
  • Music
  • Dance
  • Kid

• The minutes are a very important event today, with any adjustment suggesting that the peak in rates is close, as we believe it is, seen putting the dollar under further pressure.

  

  Ian Stannard
  • Money
  • Rates
  • Adjustment

• I feel very lucky. I don't know what else there has to be. I'm happy, as corny as it sounds, to be living in a place where it's easy to live, easy to drive to the airport, easy to go pick up something at the supermarket and to have a circle of friends. Those were my goals in 1998, not to be queen of photography but to make a cultural adjustment to the West. And those are still more important goals to me than professional ones right now.

  

  Andrea Modica
  • Photography
  • Cultural
  • Adjustment

• Just because what we've done in the past has worked and worked well doesn't mean that it will continue to. We have really got to be smart in what we're attempting to do. We need to make some adjustments and make sure we can execute certain parts of our passing game more consistently.

  

  Bob Stoops
  • Game
  • Smart
  • Continue

• Focus on long term success but be willing to make short term adjustments to get there

  

  Simon Sinek
  • Long
  • Focus
  • Term

• I have made stage adjustments which allow me to hear myself better onstage so that has made playing live much more enjoyable.

  

  Michael Schenker
  • Made
  • Enjoyable
  • Adjustment

• I think 99 percent of women's lib comes from technology making different kinds of lives possible, and then the social adjustment follows the technology - it doesn't precede it.

  

  Lois McMaster
  • Different
  • Technology
  • Kind

• Running on different types of racetracks is challenging - not only for the drivers, but even more for the team members who have to make adjustments to the cars before each race.

  

  Michael Andretti
  • Different
  • Challenges
  • Members

• People always talk about having two different swings, an aluminum bat swing and a wood swing. It is one of those things where you have to make an adjustment. But if you want to play at this level you have to be able to do that.

  

  Nick Swisher
  • Play
  • Level
  • Adjustment

• The only adjustment I have to make is being in game shape. When you take this time off, you lose a little of that game-time conditioning.

  

  Champ Bailey
  • Game
  • Being
  • Shape

• Hopefully, there isn't any adjustment at all in terms of what I am doing and what I'm preparing. Obviously, there's going to be goose bumps. There's gonna be an adrenaline rush. I want that excitement. I want that anxiety. Because that lets you know that you're passionate about what you do and that this is important. I'd much rather be in that environment than not.

  

  Beth Mowins
  • Environment
  • Anxiety
  • Rush

• Marriage of attraction is a gamble anyway, so you might as well marry into a family that is similar to your own, and make that much less of an adjustment. But the 'love marriage', as it is called, is equally common in India now. But it would be interesting to do a comparison of what would work better. Marriage is hard work, and it is a gamble.

  

  Mira Nair
  • Interesting
  • Marriage
  • Would

• Time management is probably the biggest thing I've had to learn to deal with being on the PGA Tour, whether it be media or figuring out how many weeks to play in a row. That's been the biggest adjustment, coming from amateur and college golf.

  

  Rickie Fowler
  • Management
  • Biggest
  • Adjustment

• I don't know concretely if it's due to superstition, but any time a new rule is implemented into the NBA or a new piece of equipment or a new technology, there is always a transition and adjustment period by players and coaches and anyone involved with the game.

  

  Stu Jackson
  • Game
  • Rule
  • Adjustment